Anyone? When I went through a similar exercise I remember that I had to go through a lot of on-line guides and YouTube videos before I had a good understanding of everything that was involved. I have never found a guide that was truly comprehensive. One thing that I would say is that when doing this ...

It would be good to understand how the manufacturer intended this looper to be used. Surely they tested it with a guitarist or two?

I agree with Ajay. It is quite likely that one of the power strips has a safety ground continuity fault, which may be intermittent. Whatever the fault is, this is not something that can be "lived with", as an important safety feature may be neutralised. It needs to be sorted out quickly. This issue ...

In case it might help, I tried the same experiment here using a cheap digital multimeter. I am seeing 0 volts on the AC voltage ranges (which can measure 0.1 volts) and a maximum of 0.1 millivolts (the smallest number that it can measure) on the DC voltage ranges. This is on the second power strip ...

This should be investigated and fixed immediately, although not fatal "in most cases" it's very unpleasant and could be indicative of dangerous faults somewhere in your mains wiring. Or floating mains voltages, make sure your system is grounded. +1 to this! Also the basis for any installation, even ...

Thank you for all the advice - I have now taken on board comments and worked out how to set up a stereo recording in Logic Pro. I would now like to work on the acoustics in my room and possibly look at getting some GIK sound treatment boards. I hope that you have made some simple test recordings to ...

Definitely looking forward to a "Wonks guitar furtling" article in SOS though (assuming Hugh and Wonks can be persuaded). This would be of interest to many SOS readers including keyboard players like myself who of course have some guitars but are largely clueless about whether they are badly set up ...

Thanks to Wonks for the very detailed reply and pictures. So it seems that IF (and we don't know yet) the saddle is touching the trem pivot post, there are several options to repair the problem. I'm not sure that I would tolerate the need for repairs on a rather expensive (and presumably new) guitar ...

I cannot push a piece of paper between the saddle and the post and I strongly suspect the culprit is vibration passing from the post on to the saddle and screws assembly. But the intonation is good with the saddle where it is! This is more of a question than a statement, since I don't own this ...

One more thing to try if the above doesn't sort the problem. It's possible that there might be something loose that's vibrating in tune with the G string. Try playing it without an amplifier, and see if you can hear anything odd.

Oh! Do tell how? Dave. This method worked for me: https://www.supportyourtech.com/articles/how-to-get-stereo-mix-on-windows-10-a-step-by-step-guide/ Here are some alternatives that I didn't need to try: https://thegeekpage.com/stereo-mix/ I suspect that there may be motherboards where this is not ...

ef37a wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 5:01 pm
Mind you, since miserable Microsoft killed the function in W10 (and I guess 11?) ....

I still have "Stereo Mix" as a recording option on my Windows 10 laptop (though it was both hidden and disabled by default).

Some but not all desktops have quite noisy cooling fans. You can check for this by running the computer for 20 minutes or so while it's e.g. playing a Youtube video (to give it something to do) with the sound all of the way down and listening for the fans to kick in. This is only an issue if you are ...

I still have the Pro X product key to download it but don’t want to risk that old version not working and then having to uninstall it and thereby losing that big block of non-rewritable storage space on my system SSD drive. I'm not sure what your concern is here? SSDs are rewriteable. They do have a ...

It could well be RF interference, but it sounds a lot like computer ground noise too. ------------------------------------------------------------- In particular, make sure the computer and interface have good grounds via the mains safety earth. Another question could be if the cell site on the ...

This "might" be an issue with Windows Update. I haven't seen this issue for many years, but anything is possible. If you haven't done so already, I suggest that you first create a full image backup of the C drive (not a system restore point) and a system repair disk while you still can: https://www ...

I found this Ph.D thesis online: The Evolution and Decline of the Traditional Recording Studio https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3000867/ There's over 350 pages. Sound on Sound is mentioned more than 40 times. As a person who has spent his career in a different industry, I found it very ...

Yeah, headphones and headphone amplifiers used to be pretty simple, at least for things like small mixers and later interfaces (the hi fi industry got very silly with things like 8 Ohm headphones) You built a small 'power amp' capable of say 5-8V rms and stuck a resistor on the output of between 33 ...

Yes, that was my suspicion as well. But I couldn't (be bothered to) prove it.
The Apple branded device works well, but I'm not really in favour of the modern trend to move near-essential ports to external adaptors, with the associated inconvenience and risk of losing them.

I have the Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter, which I bought 3 years ago. I am guessing that they are still the same. It actually has a Lightning socket (not USB-C) in addition to a USB-A socket. This allows you to plug in your existing Lightning charger. I can confirm that this charges my (oldish ...

I'm not quite sure what your configuration is. Are you using Arturia Analog Lab software loaded as a VST plugin in a track in Reaper (as opposed to the standalone version of Analog Lab)? If so: Analog lab has an on-screen master volume control, which is also mapped to one of the hardware controls on ...

I use the neoprene squash pucks here for BM6P (thick wooden sand filled stands made by my late father who was a carpenter) and he also made my 5 legged PMC IB1S monitor stands, super rigid. The PMC stands are on paving slabs and then pucks as they meet the top of the stand. I'm not sure if it the ...

I’m terrified to turn it on in what may turn out to be a hostile RF environment and blow up the front end of my new toy so am looking for decent attenuators that don’t also attenuate my wealth too much, any suggestions? There is a selection of SMA attenuators that may be suitable at CPC: https://c ...

Is there a PRAM (CMOS) battery in that particular model of IMac?